Watch: Andy Merrifield on Joyce, Marx, Lefebvre (The Marxist Education Project)
‘Capital’ was Marx’s dreaming fargazing, his Here Comes Everybody, a condition, he thought, where all countries were headed, his image of everybody’s future…. | more…
WATCH “MR Conversations: Anne Braden Speaks,” featuring Robin D.G. Kelley, Roz Pelles, and editor Ben Wilkins (Plus: EXCERPTS)
Stay tuned for more details: On July 18th, Ben Wilkins, the editor of Anne Braden Speaks and Director of Raise Up The South will be joined by Rosalyn Pelles of Repairers of the Breach and former Director of the National Rainbow Coalition during the Jesse Jackson campaign, and the renown public intellectual and author of Freedom Dreams. | more…
Why the working class should abolish work (Yates and Day on “Work Work Work,” in ‘The Progressive’)
Employers want your body. They want your mind, too. When you can’t work anymore, you’re disposable. I want people to think about their work and their lives. Maybe they’ll be inspired to take some action… | more…
The historic threats to annex the D.R. (Horne, in ‘Business Insider’)
white Americans largely fell into three groups concerning the issue of annexation, Dr. Horne told Insider. One group supported removing Black Americans from the mainland to remove any reminders of slavery. Another group supported removing Black Americans because they didn’t want the US to become a multiracial republic. And a third group wanted to keep Black people on the mainland because they were a cheap labor supply…. | more…
Listen: A book to refer to for years to come (“The Labor Guide to Retirement Plans” reviewed by ‘The People’s Voice’)
Labour organizers have every interest in getting wise to how pensions work and making sure they can transmit this information to the membership in a way that steels them for the fights ahead. This will undoubtedly be a book they refer to for years to come as the capitalist crisis increases | more…
James Boggs’ “The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Workers Notebook” (Black Agenda Report excerpts Chapter 6)
It is always a good time to revisit the writing of Detroit auto worker, activist, and author James Boggs . But as the diplomatic debacle of the Summit of the Americas unfolds in Los Angeles, his work seems especially relevant…. | more…
From the hard right and the political parties of Capital, to the crisis of centrism (Marxist Education Project features ‘Socialist Register’ 2022)
Ingar Solty, Bill Fletcher Jr., Samir Gandesha, Simon Mohun and Samir Sonti present articles from the 2022 edition of Socialist Register, on Trump and right-wing populism, the politics of false concreteness, market polarization, and political polarization… | more…
The poisonous fruits of white supremacy: The rise of the right (Horne, on the podcast, “De Facto”)
On the recent shootings in Uvalde and Buffalo, the coup of January 6, 2021, the legacy of US and French colonialism in Haiti, China’s Belt and Road initiatives, and…. | more…
NEW! Radek: A Novel, by Stefan Heym (EXCERPTS)
…Stalin asked, “So you think my truth needs improvement?”
“The truth,” Radek replied, “can’t be improved. The truth is true, or it is not. But a line of evidence can gain a great deal by new and better evidence…” | more…
WATCH MR Classics: Nkrumah’s ‘Consciencism,’ with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown (Plus excerpts)
Announcing a new series charting movement memory, titled “MR Classics,” starting with Kwame Nkrumah’s thought, the philosophy he called ‘Consciencism.” We are honored that Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Dr. Layla Brown will be here to guide us through this seminal work, its contemporary relevance, the issues that it raises that remain unresolved and the questions it continues to inspire. | more…
Watch: On NYT’s ‘ransom of Haiti’ (Horne on ‘Democracy Now!’)
Says Horne: The New York Times series, “The Ransom,” will “hopefully cause us to reexamine the history of this country and move away from the propaganda point that somehow the United States was an abolitionist republic when actually it was the foremost slaveholder’s republic….” | more…
Recovering the collective will behind those gripping strikes (“Radical Seattle” reviewed by ‘Socialist History’)
A minority undoubtedly were striking because they thought ‘The Revolution’ was about to arrive but for many, it was essentially a show of solidarity. While many valid criticisms may be made regarding the failed tactics or shortcomings of the strike; most of these are based on the gift of hindsight… | more…
Social sources of political polarization in Russia (Socialist Register 2022 on Leftstreamed)
Until recently Putin was able to rely on the apathetic indifference of the people and general appeals to social stability to maintain unchallenged power…. | more…